If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission.

We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.